2009 Q4 consumption log - do you want the truth or something beautiful?
watch
(OCT)
See Prang / 4bia (2008) - Banjong Pisanthanakun, Paween Purikitpanya, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009) - Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Inglorious Basterds (2009) - Quentin Tarantino
All My Failed Attempts (2009) - Tan Chui Mui
Mary and Max (2009) - Adam Elliot
The Rachel Zoe Project Season 2
永久居留 / Permanent Resident (2009) - Scud
Part of the Weekend Never Dies (2008) - Saam Farahmand, Soulwax
Vals Im Bashir / Waltz With Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman
Yôgisha X no kenshin / Suspect X (2008) - Hiroshi Nishitani
Ssang-hwa-jeom / A Frozen Flower (2008) - Ha Yu
Talentime (2009) - Yasmin Ahmad
The September Issue (2009) - RJ Cutler
Hausu / House (1977) - Nobuhiko Obayashi
The Pirate and The Emperor's Ship (2008) - Khoo Eng Yow
Import Export (2007) - Ulrich Seidl
Le silence de Lorna / Lorna's Silence (2008) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - film of the month!
Golden Horse awards 2009
(NOV)
家好月圆 / Moonlight Resonance
赤脚小子 / Bare Footed Kid (1993) - 杜琪峰 / Johnnie To
白发魔女传 / The Bride With White Hair (1993) - 于仁泰 / Ronnie yu
The Proposal (2009) - Anne Fletcher
(DEC)
宫心计 / Beyond the Realm of Conscience
Surveillance (2008) - Jennifer Lynch
Food Inc. (2008) - Robert Kenner
Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Ben Affleck
The Simpsons Season 20
A Jihad For Love (2007) - Parvez Sharma
Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Guy Ritchie
Avatar (2009) - James Cameron
read
(OCT)
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
(NOV)
Stan Lai 赖声川 - 《两夜情： 赖声川剧作： 那一夜，我们说相声 / 这一夜，谁来说相声》
Stan Lai 赖声川 - 《魔幻都市： 赖声川剧作： 十三角关系 / 在那遥远的星球，一粒沙》
Mike Leigh - Abigail's Party / Goose-pimples
Hanif Kureishi - Sleep With Me
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Christopher Bram - Gods and Monsters
Cyril Wong - Let Me Tell You Something About That Night
Yeo Hwee Hwee - 4:30
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
Mark Haddon - a Spot of Bother
(DEC)
Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Sight and Sound (June 2009)
Sight and Sound (October 2009)
hear
annie - don't stop
autokratz - animal
basement jaxx - raindrops
cicada - roulette
editors - in this light and on this evening
felix da housecat - he was king
gui boratto - take my breath away
jack penate - everything is new
junior boy - begone dull care
karen o and the kids - where the wild things are OST
kings of convenience - declaration of independence
kitsune maison 7
ladytron - live at KCRW
metric - fantasies
miike snow - miike snow
mika - the boy who knew too much
paloma faith - do you want the truth or something beautiful
speech debelle - speech therapy
the xx - the xx
vitalic - flashmob
yoko ono plastic band - between my head & the sky
zero 7 - yeah ghost
关菊英 - 攻心计
happen
- unexpectedly bumping into dan and his bf, almost not recognising him with his current funky hair. dymk indeed!
- the whole hospitalisation saga. why are hospitals such inconducive environments for recuperation?
- addiction to tvb serials
- second staycation with hp and ray this year
- catching up with various old friends - hp, ray, jo, plant, pauline, ling, dan, lou, mandy...
- xmas housewarming at ray and leanne's, getting a cheeky xmas gift and meeting their friends
- new places to hang out: Nabin and Blu Jaz at bali lane, late night macdonalds at anson road.
- meeting deborah and having fun comparing sg & nz
- having two precariously tricky conversations, one where i somehow have to tell my mother his 30yo son is no longer a virgin, and a 3-hour "we need to talk" session at tcc citylink. may 2010 bring us revelations that improve our lives/liver.
- went to basement jaxx. secured tickets for yeah yeah yeahs, sandee chen, kings of convenience. that's four off my perennial wish-list. also coming soon: muse, cat power, andrew bird, florence and the machine (and The XX), diplo, 2manyDJs.... what's with the influx of so many irresistable names in the upcoming months? the gods of great gigs are smiling upon us! what could be next? air? daft punk? justice? phoenix? RADIOHEAD? BJORK? and dare i even dream of... MADONNA?!
quotes
剧场的绝对魅力在于它的现场性；它的浪漫在于它是生命短暂与无常的缩影。
在剧场短暂的那一刹那中，演员和观众同时知道，他们彼此经历的共同经验是唯一的。
灯暗，落幕，即使是同一个剧团，同一个剧本，同一个演员阵容，这一场演出永远再也不会重现。 - 赖声川
and whose heart is not a lonely fish? - cyril wong
(OCT)
See Prang / 4bia (2008) - Banjong Pisanthanakun, Paween Purikitpanya, Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009) - Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Inglorious Basterds (2009) - Quentin Tarantino
All My Failed Attempts (2009) - Tan Chui Mui
Mary and Max (2009) - Adam Elliot
The Rachel Zoe Project Season 2
永久居留 / Permanent Resident (2009) - Scud
Part of the Weekend Never Dies (2008) - Saam Farahmand, Soulwax
Vals Im Bashir / Waltz With Bashir (2008) - Ari Folman
Yôgisha X no kenshin / Suspect X (2008) - Hiroshi Nishitani
Ssang-hwa-jeom / A Frozen Flower (2008) - Ha Yu
Talentime (2009) - Yasmin Ahmad
The September Issue (2009) - RJ Cutler
Hausu / House (1977) - Nobuhiko Obayashi
The Pirate and The Emperor's Ship (2008) - Khoo Eng Yow
Import Export (2007) - Ulrich Seidl
Le silence de Lorna / Lorna's Silence (2008) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne - film of the month!
Golden Horse awards 2009
(NOV)
家好月圆 / Moonlight Resonance
赤脚小子 / Bare Footed Kid (1993) - 杜琪峰 / Johnnie To
白发魔女传 / The Bride With White Hair (1993) - 于仁泰 / Ronnie yu
The Proposal (2009) - Anne Fletcher
(DEC)
宫心计 / Beyond the Realm of Conscience
Surveillance (2008) - Jennifer Lynch
Food Inc. (2008) - Robert Kenner
Gone Baby Gone (2007) - Ben Affleck
The Simpsons Season 20
A Jihad For Love (2007) - Parvez Sharma
Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Guy Ritchie
Avatar (2009) - James Cameron
read
(OCT)
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
(NOV)
Stan Lai 赖声川 - 《两夜情： 赖声川剧作： 那一夜，我们说相声 / 这一夜，谁来说相声》
Stan Lai 赖声川 - 《魔幻都市： 赖声川剧作： 十三角关系 / 在那遥远的星球，一粒沙》
Mike Leigh - Abigail's Party / Goose-pimples
Hanif Kureishi - Sleep With Me
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Christopher Bram - Gods and Monsters
Cyril Wong - Let Me Tell You Something About That Night
Yeo Hwee Hwee - 4:30
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
Mark Haddon - a Spot of Bother
(DEC)
Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Sight and Sound (June 2009)
Sight and Sound (October 2009)
hear
annie - don't stop
autokratz - animal
basement jaxx - raindrops
cicada - roulette
editors - in this light and on this evening
felix da housecat - he was king
gui boratto - take my breath away
jack penate - everything is new
junior boy - begone dull care
karen o and the kids - where the wild things are OST
kings of convenience - declaration of independence
kitsune maison 7
ladytron - live at KCRW
metric - fantasies
miike snow - miike snow
mika - the boy who knew too much
paloma faith - do you want the truth or something beautiful
speech debelle - speech therapy
the xx - the xx
vitalic - flashmob
yoko ono plastic band - between my head & the sky
zero 7 - yeah ghost
关菊英 - 攻心计
happen
- unexpectedly bumping into dan and his bf, almost not recognising him with his current funky hair. dymk indeed!
- the whole hospitalisation saga. why are hospitals such inconducive environments for recuperation?
- addiction to tvb serials
- second staycation with hp and ray this year
- catching up with various old friends - hp, ray, jo, plant, pauline, ling, dan, lou, mandy...
- xmas housewarming at ray and leanne's, getting a cheeky xmas gift and meeting their friends
- new places to hang out: Nabin and Blu Jaz at bali lane, late night macdonalds at anson road.
- meeting deborah and having fun comparing sg & nz
- having two precariously tricky conversations, one where i somehow have to tell my mother his 30yo son is no longer a virgin, and a 3-hour "we need to talk" session at tcc citylink. may 2010 bring us revelations that improve our lives/liver.
- went to basement jaxx. secured tickets for yeah yeah yeahs, sandee chen, kings of convenience. that's four off my perennial wish-list. also coming soon: muse, cat power, andrew bird, florence and the machine (and The XX), diplo, 2manyDJs.... what's with the influx of so many irresistable names in the upcoming months? the gods of great gigs are smiling upon us! what could be next? air? daft punk? justice? phoenix? RADIOHEAD? BJORK? and dare i even dream of... MADONNA?!
quotes
剧场的绝对魅力在于它的现场性；它的浪漫在于它是生命短暂与无常的缩影。
在剧场短暂的那一刹那中，演员和观众同时知道，他们彼此经历的共同经验是唯一的。
灯暗，落幕，即使是同一个剧团，同一个剧本，同一个演员阵容，这一场演出永远再也不会重现。 - 赖声川
and whose heart is not a lonely fish? - cyril wong